http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/franken-scores-minnesota-democratic-party-endorsement-2008-06-07.html

He's running as a Democratic-Farm-Labor. (Otherwise known as Progressive).

I think Jesse Ventura is also running as a Libertarian.

Should be an interesting race.

I'm sure he will fit right in with my Senator, Bernie Sanders.

I'm sure he will fit right in with my Senator, Bernie Sanders.


Their political views are about the same, so yes Sanders could have company.

Franken's annoying, but I generally agree with him on politics. 

Franken is making himself out to be another Paul Wellstone.  He is defiantly not anywhere nearly as sincere as Senator Wellstone was.  Senator Wellstone was a political force to be reckoned with.  Franken should only hope to be one third the politician Wellstone was.  OK, I'm done ranting.

Well...he's good enough, he's smart enough, and gosh-darn it, people like him!

Sean Hannity always addresses him as Al Franken-the TAX CHEAT.....(will it stick and hurt him? I'm not there to know.)

Well...he's good enough, he's smart enough, and gosh-darn it, people like him!

;D
Y'know for a while there I forgot about that SNL spiel he used to have as Stuart Smalley...and doggone-it, I'm betting, if he has the calzones to do it, those clips from the old SNL's would be GREAT TV spots, if not for him, maybe his opponents... :D

Sean Hannity always addresses him as Al Franken-the TAX CHEAT.....(will it stick and hurt him? I'm not there to know.)


Has anyone seen Sean Hannity's tax returns.  He says the same crap about any Democrat who makes more money than he does.  Besides Franken isn't the worst of them.

Has anyone seen Sean Hannity's tax returns.  He says the same crap about any Democrat who makes more money than he does.  Besides Franken isn't the worst of them.

Spanky will get his comeuppance, if not in this life, in the next when he comes back as a garden slug.

(Keith Olbermann calls Hannity "Spanky," which is a perfect nickname for him!)

I doubt Big Al makes more dough than Spanky.  I think Newscorp pays him 20 million a year to be the Irish-American Mussolini!
::)

Spanky will get his comeuppance, if not in this life, in the next when he comes back as a garden slug.

(Keith Olbermann calls Hannity "Spanky," which is a perfect nickname for him!)

I doubt Big Al makes more dough than Spanky.  I think Newscorp pays him 20 million a year to be the Irish-American Mussolini!
::)


Some nasty liberal kid will probably throw salt on him too. :)

Spanky does have that cute clean cut boyish (possibly diabolical) charm that God fearing, gun totting, John Wayne movie watching Americans love. 

Hey Air America is paying out of their ears for promoting "The liberal agenda"  Unknown to Fox and Spanky personal income isn't everything.  Al would probably four times what he currently makes, if he only sold his soul and went to Fox.

Some nasty liberal kid will probably throw salt on him too. :)

Spanky does have that cute clean cut boyish (possibly diabolical) charm that God fearing, gun totting, John Wayne movie watching Americans love. 

Hey Air America is paying out of their ears for promoting "The liberal agenda"  Unknown to Fox and Spanky personal income isn't everything.  Al would probably four times what he currently makes, if he only sold his soul and went to Fox.


Spanky boasts about how rich he is, which is something people with true "class" find completely crass.  I find nothing remotely charming about Hannity.  He's a bully, a bore, and a brown noser to the neo-con power brokers.  He's a sumo mental midget with the IQ of a fencepost; his mind is bereft of original thought and he can only shout strings of angry right-wing cliches.  He's not even fun to watch for a laugh, like Bill-O is.
Al Franken describes a Spanky encounter in the FOX green room: "I was accosted by an Irish ape...."  True, it would not be acceptable to call in kind Franken a "Jewish ape," but as a person of Hibernian extract, I have no problem with the epithet.  I went to school with Irish apes who stole little kids' lunch money and whacked people with hockey sticks!
::)

Spanky boasts about how rich he is, which is something people with true "class" find completely crass.  I find nothing remotely charming about Hannity.  He's a bully, a bore, and a brown noser to the neo-con power brokers.  He's a sumo mental midget with the IQ of a fencepost; his mind is bereft of original thought and he can only shout strings of angry right-wing cliches.  He's not even fun to watch for a laugh, like Bill-O is.
Al Franken describes a Spanky encounter in the FOX green room: "I was accosted by an Irish ape...."  True, it would not be acceptable to call in kind Franken a "Jewish ape," but as a person of Hibernian extract, I have no problem with the epithet.  I went to school with Irish apes who stole little kids' lunch money and whacked people with hockey sticks!
::)



http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l101/democrat60448/DF_0290_Sean_Hannity_Liar_Tool.jpg

Al should never have been in the same room with Spanky.  The trauma could have an impact for years.

Hannity does remind me of those kids who used to terrorize kids in the halls and after class.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l101/democrat60448/DF_0290_Sean_Hannity_Liar_Tool.jpg

Al should never have been in the same room with Spanky.  The trauma could have an impact for years.

Hannity does remind me of those kids who used to terrorize kids in the halls and after class.

That is exactly the kind of kid Spanky was.  Kids like that, the ones who don't get end up murdered or in prison often becoming quite successful in organized crime...or conservative punditry!

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/30/1616292.aspx

"The results from the poll of likely voters, conducted by Mason-Dixon October 27-28, have Coleman leading opponent Al Franken by six points, 42-36, with 12% of respondents favoring Independence Party candidate Dean Barkley. One in ten Minnesotans are undecided."

Watching Franken lose will be a decent consolation prize after Obama's likely win.

The GOP can't even steal it this time, eh?

The GOP can't even steal it this time, eh?



McCain ain't winning unless the Bradley effect is around 6%.

Franken's got a big disadvantage in terms of personality.  He's fun in small doses, but he quickly gets annoying as hell!  That's why I (and millions of others) tuned out his radio program after a few months!

Franken's got a big disadvantage in terms of personality.  He's fun in small doses, but he quickly gets annoying as hell!  That's why I (and millions of others) tuned out his radio program after a few months!



Even though Franken ain't going to win, the fact that he is within single digits in a statewide race against a moderate democrat-turned-republican like Norm Coleman shows how bad a year it is for the GOP.

Coleman is a moderate I suppose it could be worse.  Although I'm a Progressive I don't think Franken is ready for the Senate.

According to CNN, it is REALLY close-separated by only less than 700 votes. 


http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/individual/#mapSMN



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How many seats for the Dems in the Senate now?  I think Minnesota is recounting.

If Franken wins it's 57 Senate seats I believe.

Franken has been defeated.

Franken has been defeated.


It's such a close count, the automatic recount kicks in.  Not to mention I doubt the mail in ballots have been counted yet either.

Anything can happen on this one still. Amazing that Franken even got this close.  Had the economy not tanked as bad as it had, he would still be down by 8%.